Astronomers have spotted two hefty white dwarf stars - highly compact stellar embers - orbiting close together that appear ...

The two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, orbit a star called TOI-1453, which is slightly cooler and ...

Photograph courtesy HubbleSite But not all white dwarfs will spend many millennia cooling their heels. Those in a binary star system may have a strong enough gravitational pull to gather in ...

Leading scientists have suggested that parts of our solar system will eventually meet their end as a result of a white dwarf star. As the Sun, our solar system’s only star, becomes increasingly ...

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return home after nine months in space: "These people have shown incredible resilience" The Solar System continues to surprise us day after day and its presence in ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in exoplanets within the HR 8799 system, 130 light-years away. This ...